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[170.10.129.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 71dfb90a1353d-51eb1e36b9csi2311286e0c.188.2025.02.03.06.33.36 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:33:37 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.129.124 as permitted sender) client-ip=170.10.129.124; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=g8Rb5H+k; spf=pass (google.com: domain of berrange@redhat.com designates 170.10.129.124 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=berrange@redhat.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=redhat.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1738593216; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=B/8lBcAxko77k2JXvwd14R3PdPpTHUsEvPGEv7+BpP0=; b=g8Rb5H+kt6FtNyQFR4czJhYfGo3tpIFmhOHSGHxlK4FoeAf/mrfhdAAms3EE/c8Jh3Ucsu nY5RVS/QQ77bibqgCrLjpqeXT2lZMfOqNLp+cMJDE6JhWwr7GpdxR7ZCseLiCs5xlP838p FT6tk5ZhOXc1LrDfSQ3cyvM5RuAQJyU= Received: from mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-403-_ZEzzofhMEqaSxQEspyoFg-1; Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:33:31 -0500 X-MC-Unique: _ZEzzofhMEqaSxQEspyoFg-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: _ZEzzofhMEqaSxQEspyoFg Received: from mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.93]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A30519560B2; Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (unknown [10.42.28.64]) by mx-prod-int-06.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 491F5180035E; Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 14:33:21 +0000 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= To: Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= Cc: Peter Maydell , BALATON Zoltan , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Jared Mauch , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, devel@lists.libvirt.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] hw/arm/raspi4b: Add models with 4GB and 8GB of DRAM Message-ID: Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <20250201091528.1177-1-philmd@linaro.org> <90d87f0e-56a3-8966-614c-364f3e726d61@eik.bme.hu> <87ed0fayoy.fsf@draig.linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <87ed0fayoy.fsf@draig.linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.13 (2024-03-09) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.93 X-TUID: WafVS9IJWPz+ On Mon, Feb 03, 2025 at 02:29:49PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > Peter Maydell writes: > > > On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 at 12:57, BALATON Zoltan wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > >> > - Deprecate the 'raspi4b' machine name, renaming it as > >> > 'raspi4b-1g' on 32-bit hosts, 'raspi4b-2g' otherwise. > >> > - Add the 'raspi4b-4g' and 'raspi4b-8g' machines, with > >> > respectively 4GB and 8GB of DRAM. > >> > >> IMHO (meaning you can ignore it, just my opinion) if the only difference > >> is the memory size -machine raspi4b -memory 4g would be better user > >> experience than having a lot of different machines. > > > > Yes, I think I agree. We have a way for users to specify > > how much memory they want, and I think it makes more sense > > to use that than to have lots of different machine types. > > I guess for the Pi we should validate the -memory supplied is on of the > supported grid of devices rather than an arbitrary value? If the user wants to create a rpi4 with 6 GB RAM why should we stop them ? It is their choice if they want to precisely replicate RAM size from a physical model, or use something different when virtualized. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|